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In "Everybody's a Star (Starmaker)", Ray Davies portrays the main character of the album, Starmaker. Starmaker describes himself as "a creator, inventor and innovator" who watches "the ordinary people, no matter what [their] occupation is." He goes on to say that "everybody's a celebrity, and we've all got personality and individuality.
Soap Opera or The Kinks Present a Soap Opera is a 1975 concept album by the Kinks. It is the fourteenth studio album by the Kinks. ... "Ordinary People" (live) 3:44: ...
The lyrics won Davies an Ivor Novello Award for songwriting in 1966. Despite the praise for the song, Kinks guitarist Dave Davies described the song as "terrible", saying, "[it was] the one Kink record I haven't got." [13] Billboard said the song had a "clever, music-hall melody and lyric in the bag of [the Kinks] smash 'A Well Respected Man ...
Everybody's in Show-Biz is the eleventh studio album released by the English rock group the Kinks, released in 1972.A double album, the first disc features studio recordings, while the second disc documents a two-night Carnegie Hall stand.
Face to Face is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Kinks, released on 28 October 1966.The album marked a shift from the hard-driving style of beat music that had catapulted the group to international acclaim in 1964, instead drawing heavily from baroque pop and music hall.
Schoolboys in Disgrace, or The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace, is a 1975 concept album by the Kinks. Their 15th studio album, it was considered by critics to be the last album in what they dubbed the group's "theatrical" period, and their final release for RCA Records .
"Supersonic Rocket Ship" is a single recorded by British rock band The Kinks, written by Ray Davies. It was released on 5 May 1972, in the UK, and in September of that year for its US release. It was released on 5 May 1972, in the UK, and in September of that year for its US release.
The Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France (pictured 2004), where Ray Davies composed the song. Ray Davies composed "Big Sky" in January 1968 while visiting Cannes, France. [3] At the request of his song publisher, Ray was attending the second annual MIDEM Music Publishers Festival, an international music industry convention, hoping it would help boost his position in the record industry. [4]